Aurora Colorado has made national news headlines for weeks because of Venezuelan gang activity and attention by former president Donald Trump.
And yet when asked about it on national TV Sunday, Gov. Polis hemmed and hawed then fumbled the ball.
His rambling reaction sounded like Kamala Harris recalling her upbringing in a middle-class neighborhood with its prized green lawns.
Such is the predicament of Democrats now who must defend their open border and mass migration policies to a citizenry opposed to the mess it’s caused nationwide.
Polis was asked on CBS’s Face the Nation to respond to comments by Trump that “under border czar Harris, Venezuelan gangs have taken over entire apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado.”
Trump also called out Polis and said “The governor is petrified in Colorado. He’s a liberal governor, he doesn’t know what to do. The guy is so scared of these guys, and maybe you can’t blame him.”
Here’s how Polis responded:
“Well, you know, I went shopping in Aurora yesterday,” Polis opened.
“What a lot of Americans need to know is Aurora is over 400,000 people. It’s Colorado’s third largest city. Violent crime is down two years in a row. Car thefts are down two years in a row. It’s- it’s a wonderful city. I’m there all the time. It’s- it’s really a great, diverse city, and it’s growing fast. It’ll probably be the number one or number two city in Colorado over the next decade or two. So it’s a great city. It’s safer than it’s- than it’s been. And look, it’s like any city: Chicago, LA, mid-sized cities, Denver, of course, there’s been an issue with gangs for decades in Aurora, and I feel that we finally turn the corner. I mean, this is the difference between electing a president that skirts the law versus one who’s made a career enforcing the law. I mean, Kamala Harris is somebody who’s- who stared criminal enterprises in the face put criminals behind bars as district attorney, and she’s going to take that same attitude to the White House to make America safer.”
Trump enforced immigration laws by building a wall and funding border protection.
Harris and Biden are the ones who skirted the law by tearing down border barriers and redirecting border enforcers to instead process asylum seekers and millions of other border crossers.
Puh-leese.
The host tries to prompt Polis to acknowledge Harris needs to engage more forcefully on this issue.
Instead, Polis goes on to blame Republicans for failing to enforce the border under the (checks constitution) Biden and Harris administration.
He reaches for the same tired excuse that Republicans refused to pass a Democrat bill supported by only one, count them one Republican, which Democrats call a “bipartisan bill.”
The bill would have codified into law the allowance of thousands of asylum seekers a day across the border where they could wait in this country for years to be processed, and the vast majority rejected.
The bill would have paid for more border officers, but not to protect the border. No, those officers were to help process even more of the so-called asylum seekers.
What the media fail to ever ask, is why Democrats refused to vote for the Republican bill that passed the House but failed in the Senate to secure the border and finish building the wall.